The Latest News about healthcare reform

R. Mitchell October 12, 2017Comments Off on Trump Signs Healthcare Executive Order

President Donald Trump took healthcare into his own hands Thursday singing an executive order on healthcare after Republicans in Congress failed to put a single bill on his desk that would fix or replace Obamacare. The order focuses on association health plans which will give more leeway to small businesses who wish to band together to buy health insurance. Under ...

Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle appear to have given up on a single repeal, repeal and replace or a repair bill for Obama’s troubled health care law. Members of the Senate are pushing several tactical approaches to fix Obamacare: regulatory changes, short-term legislative fixes and a change in how health care is funded by the federal government. ...

The Republican effort to pass Obamacare repeal has been put to a stop as Senator John McCain joined two other hold outs early Friday morning to kill the stripped down version known as the skinny repeal. “This is clearly a disappointing moment,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said after the vote. “It’s time to move on.” President Donald Trump posted ...

R. Mitchell July 27, 2017Comments Off on What’s in the GOP “Skinny Repeal” Bill

Republicans released late Thursday their latest attempt at repealing and replacing Obamacare in the form of an amendment nicknamed “skinny repeal.” The amendment to H.R. 1628, The American Health Care Act, is called Health Care Freedom Act and repeals mandates that required individuals to buy insurance they didn’t want and forced business to provide insurance they could not afford. But, ...

The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to allow an Obamacare replacement bill to be debated on the Senate floor. In a 51-50 vote that required Vice President Mike Pence to issue a tie-breaking vote, the Senate has allowed H.R. 1628, The American Health Care Act of 2017, to proceed to the floor for debate and amendment. Read: What’s the American ...

R. Mitchell July 24, 2017Comments Off on Trump Delivers Statement on Healthcare [video]

President Donald Trump, speaking from the Blue Room in the White House, delivers remarks on the current state of health care and the Republican effort to fix the damage done by former President Barack Obama‘s health care law. The president’s speech is scheduled for 3:15 PM Eastern.

President Donald Trump held a lunch with Republican Senators Wednesday to push the members of Congress to take up the Obamacare repeal or repeal and replace bill before leaving for the summer recess. The president undercut Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s strategy to consider a bill that only repeals parts of Obamacare but with a two-year delay during which replacement ...

While the main stream media doesn’t cover health care reform honestly, it’s not completely fair or honest to blame CNN and The New York Times for standing in the way of a satisfying resolution to the Obamacare disaster. Currently, we have a Republican majority in Washington, a majority that has repeatedly voted to simply repeal Obamacare when they were not ...

President Donald Trump will deliver remarks Wednesday afternoon on the state of healthcare and healthcare reform after having met with Americans who have been severely impacted by Obamacare in a negative way.

House Republicans released their plan in March to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) also known as Obamacare. The original bill got through the required committees but failed to gain enough support to be brought to the floor for a vote. GOP leadership spent weeks working with conservatives and moderates to reconcile differences and create ...

R. Mitchell April 30, 2017Comments Off on Trump: ‘Democrats want billions to go to insurance companies’

President Trump announced Sunday morning that “Obamacare is dead,” and that “Dems want billions to go to Insurance Companies [sic].” “You can’t compare anything to Obamacare,” the president posted on Twitter. “because Obamacare is dead.” You can't compare anything to ObamaCare because ObamaCare is dead. Dems want billions to go to Insurance Companies to bail out donors….New — Donald J. Trump ...

Could a single-payer, government-run health care system work in the United States? We already know the answer, because America already has single-payer, government-run health care. Author and commentator Pete Hegseth explains. [if the video does not appear, click HERE]

R. Mitchell April 2, 2017Comments Off on President Trump Golfs with budget director and Rand Paul over health care

President Donald Trump is spending Sunday working on health care over twitter and a round of golf. Sunday morning, the president tweeted that health care is anything but dead. Anybody (especially Fake News media) who thinks that Repeal & Replace of ObamaCare is dead does not know the love and strength in R Party! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April ...

R. Mitchell March 11, 2017Comments Off on VP Mike Pence: The Obamacare Nightmare is About to End

Vice President Mike Pence delivered remarks at Harshaw Trane in Louisville, Kentucky where he heralded the administration’s accomplishments and told attendees why the American Health Care Act is their best chance to end “the Obamacare nightmare.” Pence promised the crowd that President Trump and he are “going to make the best health care system in the world even better.” Pence ...

R. Mitchell March 9, 2017Comments Off on President Meets With Conservative Leaders to Sell American Health Care Act

President Donald Trump met with conservative leaders on Wednesday to discuss the republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. The president met with David McIntosh of Club for Growth, Jim DeMint of The Heritage Foundation, Tim Phillips of Americans for Prosperity, Adam Brandon of FreedomWorks, Mike Needham of Heritage Action, and Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots to understand their concerns ...